Rafael Sabatini quotes
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“An intelligent observation of the facts of human existence will reveal to shallow-minded folk who sneer at the use of coincidence in the arts of fiction and drama that life itself is little more than a series of coincidences.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.114, DoctorZed Publishing
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“In endeavor itself there is a certain dynamic entertainment, affording an illusion of useful purpose. With achievement the illusion is dispelled. Man's greatest accomplishment is to produce change. The only good in life is study, because study is an endeavor that never reaches fulfillment. It busies a man to the end of his days, and it aims at the only true reality in all this world of shams and deceits.”
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“Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3315, Delphi Classics
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“He was born with a gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Scaramouche ch. 1 (1921)
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“A man must sometimes laugh at himself or go mad,’ said he. ‘Few realize it. That is why there are so many madmen in the world.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Captain Blood: Story Pirates”, p.59, 谷月社
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“But they were fated to misunderstand each other.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.149, DoctorZed Publishing
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“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2829, Delphi Classics
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“The love that is never to be realized will often remain a man's guiding ideal.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.8614, Delphi Classics
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“In life we pay for the evil that in life we do.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2954, Delphi Classics
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“I am very poor - for a know nothing, understand nothing. It is not a calamitous condition until it is realized.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.229, DoctorZed Publishing
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“Gold has at all times been considered the best of testimonies of good faith...”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Jolly Roger: Captain Blood PLUS the Sea Hawk”, p.74, DoctorZed Publishing
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“Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.”
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“He was suffering from the loss of an illusion.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.16, DoctorZed Publishing
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“Truth is so often disconcerting.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.9, DoctorZed Publishing
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“To do what you imply would require nothing short of divine intervention. You must change man, not systems.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Scaramouche (Diversion Classics)”, p.8, Diversion Books
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“It came to Mr. Blood, as he trudged forward under the laden apple-trees on that fragrant, delicious July morning, that man—as he had long suspected—was the vilest work of God, and that only a fool would set himself up as a healer of a species that was best exterminated.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2979, Delphi Classics
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“There remained the sea, which is free to all, and particularly alluring to those who feel themselves at war with humanity.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3068, Delphi Classics
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“When all is said, a man's final judgment of his fellows must be based upon his knowledge of himself”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.2233, Delphi Classics
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“The idea of equality is a by-product of the sentiment of envy. Since it must always prove beyond human ower to raise the inferior mass to a superior stratum, apostles of equality must ever be inferiors seeking to reduce their betters to their level. It follows that a nation that once admits this doctrine of equality will be dragged by it to the level, moral, intelletual and political, of its most worthless class.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.5085, Delphi Classics
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“Open the history of the past at whatsoever page you will and there you shall find coincidence at work bringing about events that the merest chance might have averted. Indeed, coincidence may be defined as the tool used by Fate to shape the destinies of men and nations.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)”, p.3115, Delphi Classics
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“Do you know, André, I sometimes think that you have no heart.' 'Presumably because I sometimes betray intelligence.”
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“...it is human nature, I suppose, to be futile and ridiculous.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2013). “Scaramouche Plus Bardelys the Magnificent”, p.10, DoctorZed Publishing
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“Only he who is without anything is without enemies.”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2008). “Chronicles Of Captain Blood”, p.93, House of Stratus
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“Do you expect sincerity in man when hypocrisy is the very keynote of human nature? We are nurtured on it; we are schooled in it, we live by it; and we rarely realize it.’ – Book 3, Chapter 16”
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“But I like my madness. There is a thrill in it unknown to such sanity as yours. ~ Book 1, Chapter 9,”
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“They opposed brute force to reason and philosophy, and battalions of foreign mercenaries to ideas. As if ideas were to be impaled on bayonets!”
-- Rafael SabatiniSource : Rafael Sabatini (2015). “Scaramouche, A Romance of the French Revolution: the History Focus”, p.197, 谷月社
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